LEAD Action News Vol
1 no 3 Spring 1993 ISSN 1324-6011
Incorporating Lead Aware Times ( ISSN 1440-4966) and Lead Advisory Service News ( ISSN 1440-0561)
The journal of The LEAD (Lead Education and Abatement Design) Group Inc.

A. The Sydney Morning Herald's chemist gave his assurance that Lead
in newspapers and magazines is and has been a thing of the past for more
than 20 years. Today's technology allows them to use wood fibres that are
harmless to create the print. Lead in print he believed could be found
in very old books, such as family bibles that have very strong black
print that lasts for decades. If children were to chew on these they
would be ingesting lead.

It had happened in the past that people in fact ingested lead by
licking their fingers and turning the pages of their newspaper. This no
longer happens with the new methods of printing.

It
was explained that lead print gives very dark coverage, lasts a long
time and looks very bold. The question then goes begging is lead used in
product packaging - the answer is nobody knows. This perhaps is an
interesting comment on our protection organisations that have stringent
rules regarding what is inside a packet - but have no idea what the
packaging contains as regards chemical composition.